Just in case - HijackThis log.
No worries - you never know who your dealing with on these forums. I personally have the following programs listed in the tray (as well as sound, power, network, hw removal): Avast, MSantiSpyware, ypops, and intelligent manageability (hp monitoring tool). This is the same setup as I had with previous versions. I might also add that with previous I was able to run all prividers in HIGH withot any ill affect. Now with v4.6.763 I have intermittent “slowness” with everything set to normal.
Since reading this thread i’ve played around a little bit more and although not a huge improvement was gained, I feel performance has improved by disabling all feedback (silent) in all providers and disabling animations (although with this setting the avast icon continues to spin???) and sounds .
It is curious - Since this problem began I decided to rebuild my machine as it had been over a year of installing and uninstalling apps and it was time to clean up. The rebuild was without any other AV installed (unlike the previous build which had had several installed in my search for a sound product). However, the intermittent performance issue continued.
I have not tried to revert to 4.6.744 (although I do still have the source). Not bothering me that much, and I figure the benefits of the new version outweigh this side affect. However, I feel this issue is worth Alwil investigating. I have seen other threads around this topic sice the release of 4.6.763.
Still a good product, that I’ll stick with for a while longer - Cheers
1.4ghz, 768mb
I experience significant slow down of my PC while online. This only occurs after I have been booted up for 15 minutes or so, like a cache filling up or something. I am sure it is avast, because when a web page hangs, I can stop the avast program and the web page will come to life again.
Anyone getting anywhere with figuring out what the problem is?
Really annoying and time consuming -
falconx
Falconx:
- Please, resize your avatar to 100x100 for instance, it’s too heavy for dial-up users and for display.
- Other, we need more info: which is your operational system, other security program installed, which browser are you using…
- Check the last file scanned (left click the ‘a’ blue icon and click details) in each provider… any clue about them?
- Which is your Standard Shield sensitivity? High or Normal?
Hope the new avatar size is better.
OS - XP Pro
ZoneAlarm
IE
Shield normal
Sorry can’t give you the last file scanned, had to turn Avast OFF to work.
I know folks don’t like to hear that there are problems with their programs, but, lets face it. If you are getting this many complaints and/or questions, there IS a problem.
I know as a “newbie”, I was having a hard time following ALL the messages, replies & threads that have been created on this topic.
It is now several months since the original post by the sender. But, I have just come across this, I’m new, and I too having been suspicioning that my computer has slowed down some. My ‘home’ laptop is a HP with an AMD Turon chip + 2 gigs of memory. My work laptop is a HP also with the ML-32 AMD chip. Both seem to have slowed down lately. I have been reading articles that seem to indicate that some virus software slow down the operations? Is Avast one of the offending parties??
For sure it’s not normal have to disable the antivirus to work.
You have a conflict or a problem.
Any other antivirus installed in the past?
Are you using ZA free or Professional?
We? Who are we here?
I love troubles ;D. I’m an user like you and I’m here to help 
But it’s not easy to ‘guess’ what’s wrong with your computer… just complaining about avast won’t help…